Financial exploitation robs millions of older people of their money and
property annually. To prevent and
respond to the growing crisis of elder financial exploitation, people are working
together in hundreds of communities across our nation.

Scams that target older people occur every day, but you can count on scammers to ramp up their efforts to prey on people’s generosity during the holiday season. We’re working to provide older consumers and their families with the tools and information they need to protect themselves from frauds and scams.

Today we’re announcing that we filed a lawsuit against a robo-call debt collection operation, including its ringleaders, their companies, and service providers. The debt collectors allegedly sent millions of robo-calls to threaten, harass, and deceive consumers to collect debt that consumers do not owe, or were not owed to the debt collectors themselves. The complaint alleges that the scheme depended on the participation of the telemarketing company that sent the robo-calls and the payment processors that allowed the collectors to access consumers’ bank accounts.